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Someone (I don’t remember and frankly it doesn’t matter because it’s been asked at least twice in the last month) said this on QuiltArt:

So has anyone done anything interesting lately with fabric, dyes, and/or thread?

To which I replied to the list:

Yes

I mean, really, either the answer is “Yes” or you are doing something else, right?

In actuality, I’ve been sewing together the short rows of my work in progress and I’m just about at the halfway point. That would make it about 1/4 sewn together, for those keeping score mathmatically. I really like the colors. Years ago I would never imagined making quilts where blues were the zinger color. But colors are just colors and if you’re working with warm browns and yellow greens and a lot of yellows and oranges, well – blue is the balance.

And I can hear some of you thinking to yourself – warm browns – has she completely flipped out. Someone stopped me, years ago, when I used “warm blue” in a sentence about a then current quilt. Um, he asked, how the heck can you be meaning a warm blue? Isn’t blue by nature of being blue a COOL color?” Au contraire grasshoppers! Blue can certainly be warmer OR cooler, depending on how much red is in it.

In the spectrum that is my stash there is a lot of variation in each bin – greens dark and black, greens yellow and brown, greens touched with that weird turquoise-y cast. Yellows with grey, yellows with orange, yellows that flirt with green, but in a shadowy kind of way.

Well, you look at color your way and I’ll sit back and enjoy that bit of cobalt among all those nice earthy colors. Pretty soon it will be your turn to say that it looks nice as rectangles.